QCA’s Build Your Own Business for Individual Artists offers a unique opportunity for emerging artists to work one on one with an experienced arts consultant to build better business practices to promote their work.
We are thrilled to announce the 7 recipients of this award who will launch the 2012 cohort of this program.
Featured author/translators Guillermo Filice Castro, Urayoan Noel and Elizabeth Torres will present works and images in a multidisciplinary reading focusing on the translation of the visual world to the written word at the Queens Museum of Art. A suggested donation of $5 includes light refreshments provided in part by Lagunitas Brewing Co.. Join us for the performance and stay for the beer, plus an informal tour of the Queens International Exhibit!
Or visit www.queenscouncilarts.org for more information
“The painful contrasts of lights and darks in every instant of our daily life leaves a footprint in our voices and spirit… and that’s exactly what I want to capture in my work” – Elizabeth Torres (artwork, above)
Queens in Love with Literature (QUILL) is a forum for Queens writers who are committed to developing and defining the creative field of translation, and offers audiences in Queens the opportunity not only to hear from authors working in their own neighborhood, but also perhaps in their own language. This year QUILL seeks to expand the concept of translation through a series of creative translation events, featuring artists from other disciplines in collaborative interpretations of literary works.
QUILL is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.
QCA’s Build Your Own Business for Organizations offers a unique opportunity for burgeoning arts organizations to work one on one with an experienced arts consultant to build better business practices to promote their work and be a successful organization.
We are proud to announce the 7 recipients of this award who will launch the 2012 cohort of this program.
Dina Denis Dance – Dance Into Light, Inc.
Queens Media Arts Development (QMAD)
Talea Ensemble, Inc.
In our last post about SPARC we announced the 2012 artists-in-residence. Now that it’s officially 2012, and they have just begun working on their residency projects, we wanted to tell you a bit more about them.
Amy Reid, CCNS Catherine Sheridan: Amy’s will be collaborating with seniors at CCNS Catherine Sheridan to make narrative videos based on the seniors memories. She will also be working with seniors to make unique props for the videos based on images from the seniors’ memories. Amy is currently working with Elders Sharing the Arts.
Alejandra Regalado, IRPHE (Elmhurst): Alejandara is a photographer who will work with seniors on a project that features portraits of seniors from IRPHE with personal objects of significant emotional value.
Rachel Sullivan, Florence Smith: A theater-artist, Rachel plans to create a devised theater piece with her center members. She will draw on her past experience as a teaching artist working with seniors.
Constance Gemson, NORC Forrest Hills: Constance is working on a oral history and writing project. She will begin her contact hours with the residents at her center in February! She comes to the program with a lot of experience conducting writing workshops with seniors.
Andrea Burgay, Ridgewood Older Adults Center: Andrea is a visual artist working with textiles and collage. She will work with members from ROAC to create their own collages culminating in a public exhibition of the work. Next week Andrea’s work will be featured in The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at the the BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights.
Abigail Weg, Ridgewood Older Adults Center: Abby is an experienced teaching artist based in Ridgewood who will lead her students from the Ridgewood Older Adults Center on a journey through the visual arts incorporating various forms of media and techniques.
Carla E. Reyes, Selfhelp Austin Street: Carla will be leading seniors from Selfhelp Austin Street in an art-making and journaling project culminating in a public exhibition of the seniors’ works. Seniors will be asked to make work that touches on their perception of time.
Ka-Man Tse, Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal: Ka-Man is a photographer, and she is no stranger to Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal, having conducted a photography workshop there in 2011. She will be continuing her photography work with the center in 2012, and they are thrilled to have her back!
Robin Benson, Sunnyside Center for Active Older Adults: Robin will lead several performing arts workshops that deal with improvisational work and working from written scripts, culminating in a public performance.
Valerie Green, Sunnyside Center for Active Older Adults: A dance and choreographer, Valerie will conduct a series of movement classes with center members, assisted by her dance company, Dance Entropy. She has generously arranged for the members of her center to attend an upcoming performance of Dance Entropy. You can learn more about the performance (including how to buy tickets) here. Valerie worked with Sunnyside in 2010 as well.
An Image from Alejandra Regalado’s prior project, Memorabile
SPARC is being programmed city-wide, with a different set of artists and centers participating in each borough. Check in with the arts councils in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx for information about those boroughs – and you can find a list of all participants here on the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs website.
The Chinese Dragon is the most intriguing and auspicious of the mythological creatures that make up the twelve year cycle. To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, there will be a wonderful free music event in Queens at Crossing Art Gallery in Flushing at 3:00 pm this Sunday, January 22nd, where you can hear a live performance of the Shanghai String Quartet. You can also hear it on WQXR. While you are in Flushing, take time to sample some of great food with a cup of tea. Not only is there great music, there is great art and amazing food in Queens to enjoy as you welcome the new year!
If you are hungry for more cultural and culinary events, come to www.queenscouncilarts.org and see what else is happening in Queens. Remember you can also call or email. The year is just beginning and filled with upcoming unique literary events and arts networking for you to enjoy in New York’s most diverse borough.
Don’t miss the chance to build your artistic career goals in 2012. Our Build Your Own Business Program for Artists offers you the opportunity to work strategically with a professional arts consultant on a specific project and share your experiences with your peers in a monthly peer leadership circle.
Applications are due Thursday, January 12th.
For more information and to apply click here.
Do you have a project you want to launch in 2012? Do you need to figure out how to fund it? Are you confused about how to get crowdsourcing to work for you? Join us next week as Kickstarter’s own Stephanie Pereira leads us through Kickstater school.
Kickstarter: Bringing Your Creative Idea to Life
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101.
N/Q to Queensboro Plaza
E/M/R to Queens Plaza
F to 21st Street Queensbridge
Happy New Year!
QCA would like to extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who supported our programs and activities in 2011.
This past giving season, we shared with you the phrase, “Thank you and come again!” It’s a simple yet sincere phrase that local restaurants say. Its more literal meaning is “thank you (for your business) and come again (and enjoy our food soon)”.
At QCA, we like to change it up to mean “thank you (for supporting us) and come again (and enjoy our borough’s art and culture)”.
It’s because of your donations, your feedback, and your attendance at our free workshops and events that are so meaningful to us and our community that one phrase alone can’t ever sum up its value. Together, we can support one another – block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.
So come back in 2012!
Attend a workshop. Sit in on a reading. Come with a friend. Support the arts in Queens. It’s good for the mind, soul and belly.
December is commonly known as the EATING season, but how about the GIVING season?
QCA asks that you save a bite for us this month!
This year, consider making a contribution to QCA and help us continue to give back to the artists and residents of our borough.
Donate Now! Your contribution goes directly to QCA programming like workshops and training for artists, a year-round portfolio development program for high school arts students as well as free arts, cultural and food events are available to the Queens community.
Read our annual report and see how you have helped make a difference in the arts!
ArtPlace is a new private-public collaboration, established by 11 of America’s top foundations working with the National Endowment for the Arts and seven federal agencies. Its purpose is to drive revitalization in cities and towns across America through a new investment model that puts the arts at the center of economic development. Read about it in The New York Times article.
Support from ArtPlace will go towards QCA’s 2012 Queens Art Express (QAX) Spring Art Festival which is now in its 4th year. QAX has a history of building innovative and sustainable community partnerships and features over 50 performances, exhibitions, art events and great places to eat in the unique cultural communities along the route of the borough’s subway lines including the No. 7 “International Express”, N, R, and by extension in 2012, the E line. Featured neighborhoods range from Long Island City, Sunnyside, Astoria, Jackson Heights, Corona, Flushing, Forest Hills and Jamaica.
Activities are open to all NYC residents and annually over 300,000 artists, residents, and families enjoy the festival.
